The ability to approximately answer aggregation queries accurately and efficiently is of great benefit for decision support and data mining tools. In contrast to previous sampling...
In this paper, we give a O(log copt)-approximation algorithm for the point guard problem where copt is the optimal number of guards. Our algorithm runs in time polynomial in n, the...
Ajay Deshpande, Taejung Kim, Erik D. Demaine, Sanj...
Natural scenes contain large amounts of geometry, such as hundreds of thousands or even millions of tree leaves and grass blades. Subtle lighting effects present in such environme...
Kyle Hegeman, Simon Premoze, Michael Ashikhmin, Ge...
Abstract. In recent years, probabilistic analyses of algorithms have received increasing attention. Despite results on the average-case complexity and smoothed complexity of exact ...
Abstract. We present a solution to the problem of performing approximate pattern matching on compressed text. The format we choose is the Ziv-Lempel family, speci cally the LZ78 an...